Cuba vs Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of): Mangroves — Area from MODIS

Cuba
521.74 1000 ha
in 2024
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
487.34 1000 ha
in 2024
Cuba rank
14th
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) rank
5th

Mangroves — Area from MODIS over time

  • Cuba
  • Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
0200400600800200120122024

How they compare

Cuba currently reports 521.74 1000 ha against 487.34 1000 ha in Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of), a difference of 34.4 1000 ha.

That makes Cuba's figure about 1.1 times Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)'s.

The two have swapped places 9 times across 24 shared years of data; in 2001 it was Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) ahead.

Cuba ranks 14th and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) ranks 5th of 223 countries.

Across the 3 decades both report, Cuba averaged higher in 1 and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) in 2.

Head to head by decade

Decade Cuba Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) Difference Ahead
2000s 501.36 1000 ha 539.7 1000 ha 38.35 1000 ha Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
2010s 501.84 1000 ha 506.88 1000 ha 5.04 1000 ha Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
2020s 502.07 1000 ha 500.26 1000 ha 1.82 1000 ha Cuba

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher mangroves — area from modis, Cuba or Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)?
Cuba, at 521.74 1000 ha against 487.34 1000 ha in Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) as of 2024.
What is the difference in mangroves — area from modis between Cuba and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)?
34.4 1000 ha, with Cuba ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Cuba and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)?
24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
How do Cuba and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) rank globally for mangroves — area from modis?
Cuba ranks 14th and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) ranks 5th of 223 countries.
Where does this data come from?
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Mangroves — Area from MODIS. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

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Indicator
Mangroves — Area from MODIS
Unit
1000 ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
269 places, 6,390 data points, 2001–2024
Last refreshed

The FAOSTAT domain on Land Cover data under the Agri-Environmental Indicators section contains land cover information organized by the land cover classes of the international standard system for Environmental and Economic Accounting Central Framework (SEEA CF). The land cover information is compiled from publicly available Global Land Cover (GLC) maps: a) MODIS land cover types based on the Land Cover Classification System, LCCS; b) The European Spatial Agency (ESA) Climate Change Initiative (CCI) annual land cover maps produced by the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL)-Geomatics and now under the European Copernicus Program; c) The annual land cover maps which were produced under the European Copernicus Global Land Service (CGLS) (CGLS land cover, containing discrete land cover categorization), with spatial resolution 100m; and d) the WorldCover maps of the European Space Agency, produced at 10m resolution.